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- From: Malcolm Pradhan <pradhan@camis.stanford.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Apple Crippling Systems?!?
- Date: 12 Dec 1992 18:30:24 GMT
- Organization: Section of Medical Informatics, Stanford University
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- In article <75489@apple.apple.COM> bill coderre, bc@Apple.COM writes:
- >Let's cut the bashing and get to the real question:
- >
- >What would you like to see in a new technology-leading Mac?
- >
- >What's missing from the Quadra 9xx and 7xx?
- >
- >And remember, try to keep the price under $7500 for a base unit.
-
- Ok:
-
- DSP
- DMA
- SCSI-2
- 128K CPU cache
- More RAM slots (Q700)
- 2.8 Mb floppy disks
-
- On the software side:
-
- Memory protection (nuKernel, if it ever gets out..) - it's sad
- to have such a powerful machine and have it crash because a
- small programs dies. No I don't want to install AU/X.
- Multi Threaded support in OS.
- DSP libraries, and codecs for QuickTime codec acceleration.
-
- I know every extra gadget costs money but Macs need to have that extra
- something (or somethings) to justify their purchase in a PC world,
- and the Mac GUI isn't going to be able to do it forever.
-
- Regards,
- Malcolm
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- Malcolm Pradhan
- Section on Medical Informatics
- MSOB X-215, Stanford University, CA, 94305
- pradhan@camis.stanford.edu (415) 725-3398
-